by Nick Rainsford | 25 Feb 2018 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
You may have read recently about various economic facts and figures as they have been made public by our economic sleuths. For instance, you may have heard about the levelling out (in some cases, a fall) in various housing markets around the country. You may have...
by Nick Rainsford | 4 Feb 2018 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
Ok, you’ve read the scary headlines and called us to discuss the impact falling property prices will have on your mortgage. Even though you were calmed by the end of the conversation, the panic attacks soon started again. These scary feelings were getting the better...
by Nick Rainsford | 29 Oct 2017 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
If you’ve been following what’s been going on in home loan land in the past two years you may have realised that the unprecedented intervention by the banking regulator, APRA, has had a profound effect on the affordability of a home loan. These effects cut both ways...
by Nick Rainsford | 10 Jul 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF, Uncategorized
There are many ways to skin a cat (apparently). If you’ve been reading the press lately when it comes to interest only interest rates that old adage just doesn’t apply. It seems as though the only way to change people’s behaviour is to charge them more. That’s just...
by Nick Rainsford | 6 Oct 2016 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF, Uncategorized
When I first put in place a home loan 32 years ago all I could think about was how I was going to pay it off and own my own home. The day I made the final repayment was one I’ll always remember. I was free of the bank…until we decided to upgrade but that’s another...